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AP Biology Semester 2 Final Exam Study Guide: Structured Study Notes

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Negative & Positive Feedback

Prokaryotic & Eukaryotic Cells

Introduction to the Cell Cycle

Interphase

Phases of Mitosis

Cell Cycle Regulation

Cancer

Introduction to Meiosis

Meiosis I

Meiosis II

Genetic Variation During Meiosis

Mendel's Laws

Monohybrid Crosses

Dihybrid Crosses

Incomplete Dominance vs. Codominance

Epistasis

Pedigrees

Sex-Linked Inheritance

X-Inactivation

Introduction to Regulation of Gene Expression

Prokaryotic Gene Regulation via Operons

The Lac Operon

Glucose's Impact on Lac Operon

The Trp Operon

Review of the Lac Operon & Trp Operon

Introduction to Eukaryotic Gene Regulation

Eukaryotic Chromatin Modifications

Eukaryotic Transcriptional Control

Eukaryotic Post-Transcriptional Regulation

Eukaryotic Post-Translational Regulation

Natural Selection and Evolution

Natural Selection

Evidence of Natural Selection

Genetic Variation

The Hardy-Weinberg Principle

Genetics and Allele Frequencies

Genetic Drift

Gene Flow

Introduction to Phylogeny

Phylogeny

Building Phylogenetic Trees

Introduction to Speciation

The Biological Species Concept

Allopatric and Sympatric Speciation

Hybrid Zones

Speciation Time Scales

Origin of Life

History of Life on Earth

Adaptive Radiation

Endosymbiotic Theory

Viruses

Immune System

Innate Immunity

Adaptive Immunity

Introduction to Photosynthesis

Leaf & Chloroplast Anatomy

Stages of Photosynthesis

Pigments of Photosynthesis

Light Reactions of Photosynthesis

Calvin Cycle

C3, C4 & CAM Plants

Introduction to Population Ecology